{"id":11032,"date":"2020-11-11T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11032"},"modified":"2020-11-12T19:42:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T02:42:57","slug":"great-tits-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/11\/great-tits-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Tits Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/11\/great-tits-could-be-wiped-out-by-climate-change-in-near-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Great tits could be wiped out by climate change in near future<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/ben-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ben Cost<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/greattit.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618&amp;h=410&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"The great tit could soon go the way of the dodo.\"\/><figcaption><em>The great tit could soon go the way of the dodo.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We mean the birds, dirtbags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unfortunately named great tit has joined a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/02\/animals-are-going-extinct-at-fastest-rate-since-death-of-dinosaurs\/\" target=\"_blank\">long list of species<\/a>\u00a0that could soon disappear due to Earth\u2019s rapidly warming climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf the changes happen too fast, species can become extinct,\u201d said Emily Simmonds, an associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology\u2019s department of biology. She authored an article in the journal Ecology Letters&nbsp;detailing how the food supply of the great tit \u2014 a colorful songbird endemic to Europe and Asia \u2014 and other bird species&nbsp;can be impacted by a premature season shift caused by rising temperatures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simmonds argued that warmer winters and resultant early springs prompt plants to leaf earlier, causing tree-eating larvae to hatch ahead of time,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/11\/201105112936.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Science Daily reported.<\/a>\u00a0This can prove problematic to birds like the great tit that depend on the spring bug bounty when they\u2019re babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/11\/great-tits-could-be-wiped-out-by-climate-change-in-near-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Post Great tits could be wiped out by climate change in near future By\u00a0Ben Cost We mean the birds, dirtbags. The unfortunately named great tit has joined a\u00a0long list of species\u00a0that could soon disappear due to Earth\u2019s rapidly warming climate. \u201cIf the changes happen too fast, species can become extinct,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}